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*** It's possible that only Al (and Sam) can actually use the Imaging Chamber since the project is based around their brainwaves. In one episode when Sam goes crazy, they have the project's psychologist enter the chamber to help. And it's unclear but it's implied that the psychologist cannot actually see or hear anything Al can, as it looks like he's directing her where to look.
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*** It's possible that only Al (and Sam) can actually use the Imaging Chamber since the project is based around their brainwaves. In one episode when Sam goes crazy, they have the project's psychologist enter the chamber to help. And it's unclear but it's implied that the psychologist cannot actually see or hear anything Al can, as it looks like he's directing her where to look.
look. ([[BellisariosMaxim And don't think about when other people use the chamber]]).
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** Since it's Sam's body that is leaping, he is presumably still aging (as is pretty much confirmed in the last episode). So given another forty or fifty years of leaping in his subjective time, its possible eh eventually does just die of old age. Assuming is isn't killed on a leap before then.
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** It seems that it may be that Sam leaps to right specific wrongs, and apparantly can't right every single wrong that's happened during his life. For example, when he leaps to Dallas in November of 1963, he can't save President Kennedy from being asassinated, but Al reveals at the end of the episode that apparantly he was there to prevent Jackie Kennedy from being killed too, not to save the President. Granted, that still doesn't explain why he can't save the President or the neighbor, or why Ziggy wasn't at least aware of what happened to the neighbor.
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** It seems that it may be that Sam leaps to right specific wrongs, and apparantly apparently can't right every single wrong that's happened during his life. For example, when he leaps to Dallas in November of 1963, he can't save President Kennedy from being asassinated, assassinated, but Al reveals at the end of the episode that apparantly apparently he was there to prevent Jackie Kennedy from being killed too, not to save the President. Granted, that still doesn't explain why he can't save the President or the neighbor, or why Ziggy wasn't at least aware of what happened to the neighbor.
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*** It's possible that only Al (and Sam) can actually use the Imaging Chamber since the project is based around their brainwaves. In one episode when Sam goes crazy, they have the project's psychologist enter the chamber to help. And it's unclear but it's implied that the psychologist cannot actually see or hear anything Al can, as it looks like he's directing her where to look.
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**** We have seen how a leapee reacts to being returned in "Double Identity": they don't seem to remember anything.
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**** Kevin had gone over to try to rape her again. It's likely that this time, there would be enough evidence to finally put him away, since it was witnessed by the leapee's parents.
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** Sam actually does leap into somebody whilst they're asleep. If I remember correctly, he's dreaming about DS9's Terry Farrell naked on the beach, which shocked the hell out of me at the time because it used to be shown at 6pm in the UK.
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* In one episode (I believe it was called "Killing Time") Sam leaps into a man who's taken a woman and her daughter hostage. In the present, the leapee is able to get a gun and force Al to let him out of the waiting room. On their way out, they run into Gooshie who nonchalantly says "Hello, Dr. Beckett." and becomes surprised when the leapee then points the gun at Gooshie, who still thinks it's Sam Beckett. 1) Shouldn't Gooshie ''know'' that, even though the person looks and sounds like Sam, it ''isn't'' Sam? And 2) even if he did think it was, shouldn't he be a bit more excited since it would mean Sam was back? I mean, isn't that the ''whole premise'' of the show, and the ''main focus'' of what they've been trying to do at Project Quantum Leap for the past four years?
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* In one episode (I believe it was called "Killing Time") Sam leaps into a man who's taken a woman and her daughter hostage. In the present, the leapee is able to get a gun and force Al to let him out of the waiting room. On their way out, they run into Gooshie who nonchalantly says "Hello, Dr. Beckett." and becomes surprised when the leapee then points the gun at Gooshie, who still thinks it's Sam Beckett. 1) Shouldn't Gooshie ''know'' that, even though the person looks and sounds like Sam, it ''isn't'' Sam? And 2) even if he did think it was, shouldn't he be a bit more excited since it would mean Sam was back? I mean, isn't that the ''whole premise'' of the show, and the ''main focus'' of what they've been trying to do at Project Quantum Leap for the past four years? years?
** That used to bug me, too, but after rewatching it recently, it dawned on me that Gooshie is joking. Although Gooshie is mentioned in nearly every episode, we seldom get to see him, and this is the only episode in which his character is fleshed out. Despite Al's insults, we see that Gooshie is very intelligent and has a good sense of humor. He probably addresses EVERY hapless soul in the Waiting Room as "Dr. Beckett" because he doesn't yet know who they are.
** That used to bug me, too, but after rewatching it recently, it dawned on me that Gooshie is joking. Although Gooshie is mentioned in nearly every episode, we seldom get to see him, and this is the only episode in which his character is fleshed out. Despite Al's insults, we see that Gooshie is very intelligent and has a good sense of humor. He probably addresses EVERY hapless soul in the Waiting Room as "Dr. Beckett" because he doesn't yet know who they are.
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** I think the idea was that the time machine was supposed to operate by letting you go back to times within your own life. Instead,the machine didn't work as intended and instead sends the user back in time to a point within their own lifetime, except it's not them. So, it's supposed to work as you detailed, but the whole premise that the machine isn't working properly is why that happens.
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* In one episode, Al wants Sam to change a big part of history in order to keep the project funded. His belief is: if the history books change, that will be proof the project is working. The problem with that is: everyone but he and Sam will believe the changed history books, having no memory of the event that did not happen. 'No, really, committee, I swear, in so-and-so, this big thing happened, but Sam changed it. You can look up the rec- Oh.' And Al not seeing the FridgeLogic would be fine, but not one member of the committee or Sam himself sees it, either.
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* In one episode, Al wants Sam to change a big part of history in order to keep the project funded. His belief is: if the history books change, that will be proof the project is working. The problem with that is: everyone but he and Sam will believe the changed history books, having no memory of the event that did not happen. 'No, really, committee, I swear, in so-and-so, this big thing happened, but Sam changed it. You can look up the rec- Oh.' And Al not seeing the FridgeLogic would be fine, but not one member of the committee or Sam himself sees it, either.
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** Agreed. Besides all the above, if they needed to prove the project was working, wouldn't it have been simpler and less risky to invite a member of the committee to enter the imaging chamber?
** Agreed. Besides all the above, if they needed to prove the project was working, wouldn't it have been simpler and less risky to invite a member of the committee to enter the imaging chamber?
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* In one episode, Al wants Sam to change a big part of history in order to keep the project funded. His belief is: if the history books change, that will be proof the project is working. The problem with that is: everyone but he and Sam will believe the changed history books, having no memory of the event that did not happen. 'No, really, committee, I swear, in so-and-so, this big thing happened, but Sam changed it. You can look up the rec- Oh.' And Al not seeing the FridgeLogic would be fine, but not one member of the committee or Sam himself sees it, either.
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** [[RuleOfDrama A good teaser]].
* In "The Leap Home, Part II", it shows Sam mowing down a bunch of Viet-Cong with a machine gun. I mean, I know he leaped into the middle of a war, and that the Viet-Cong wouldn't have hesitated to kill him, but it still seems a bit un-Sam like. At least he could have shown some remorse or something later.
* In "The Leap Home, Part II", it shows Sam mowing down a bunch of Viet-Cong with a machine gun. I mean, I know he leaped into the middle of a war, and that the Viet-Cong wouldn't have hesitated to kill him, but it still seems a bit un-Sam like. At least he could have shown some remorse or something later.
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** Yes, anyone - production assistants, actors, directors, and anyone else who might have noticed that an 80's model car was in the shot in what's supposed to be 1953.
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* In the pilot episode (which happens to be about a pilot), why didn't anyone on the Air Force base notice or say anything about the 80's model car driving near the flight line in 1953? This car goes by in the background as Sam and Al talk prior to Sam's flight of the X-2.
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* In the pilot episode (which happens to be about a pilot), why didn't anyone on the Air Force base notice or say anything about the 80's model car driving near the flight line in 1953? This car goes by in the background as Sam and Al talk prior to Sam's flight of the X-2. X-2.
** When you say "Why didn't '''anyone''' on the Air Force base notice or say anything," I presume you're also referring to the camera operator, the director, and most of the crew, in addition to the characters in the show.
** When you say "Why didn't '''anyone''' on the Air Force base notice or say anything," I presume you're also referring to the camera operator, the director, and most of the crew, in addition to the characters in the show.
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* Why does Sam always leap into the person's body at inopportune times? How come he never leaps into a body while they're sleeping (which he should really have a 1 in 3 chance of doing)?
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**** He's also not the sort to openly admit that he got the ever-loving shit beaten out of him by a woman, especially once that he already overpowered.
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** Other times it's suggested that the people Sam replaces (who then take ''his'' place at Project Quantum Leap) ''don't'' take on his appearence whole he takes on theirs.
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*** OK, so he says she invited him over to apologise, ''then'' kicked the crap out of him.
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*** Considering Kevin went to '''her''' house to "teach her a lesson?" His believability isn't very high.
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*** Especially when you consider that the person not only has no recollection of having participated in some historically-significant or personally-significant event and add in the fact that the person also has a story about being in a chamber for a period of time while someone else occupied his or her body. I think this would put the person in the same category as all the people who claim to have been abducted by aliens and suffered an anal probe.
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*** Especially when you consider that the person not only has no recollection of having participated in some historically-significant or personally-significant event and add in the fact that the person also has a story about being in a chamber for a period of time while someone else occupied his or her body. I think this would put the person in the same category as all the people who claim to have been abducted by aliens and suffered an anal probe. probe.
*** Case in point: Season 4, "Raped". As psychologically satisfying as it was to see Sam kick the shit out of Kevin, couldn't Kevin just later squeal that Katie hunted him down and beat him up in revenge? They'd believe him again, too.
*** Case in point: Season 4, "Raped". As psychologically satisfying as it was to see Sam kick the shit out of Kevin, couldn't Kevin just later squeal that Katie hunted him down and beat him up in revenge? They'd believe him again, too.
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** It seems that it may be that Sam leaps to right specific wrongs, and apparantly can't right every single wrong that's happened during his life. For example, when he leaps to Dallas in November of 1963, he can't save President Kennedy from being asassinated, but Al reveals at the end of the episode that apparantly he was there to prevent Jackie Kennedy from being killed too, not to save the President. Granted, that still doesn't explain why he can't save the President or the neighbor, or why Ziggy wasn't at least aware of what happened to the neighbor.
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*** I think the concern Al and Sam may feel is gone when they move on to the next problem.
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*** Especially when you consider that the person not only has no recollection of having participated in some historically-significant or personally-significant event and add in the fact that the person also has a story about being in a chamber for a period of time while someone else occupied his or her body. I think this would put the person in the same category as all the people who claim to have been abducted by aliens and suffered an anal probe.
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** I have a theory that, at one point several years after the finale, Sam leapt into his father during the events of "The Leap Home: Part 1". This is the only in-universe explanation I can think of for why John is played by Scott Bakula instead of the guy who played him in the pilot.
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*** The best part about the series though is the pretty much ALL the inconsistencies can be explained by ripple effects in the time line from his leaps.
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** It seems like Sam's leaping would cause more problems for the person than he fixes.
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**I don't recall any mention of Al seeing Sam as the Leapee after "What Price Gloria." {{Fanon}} is that the events of that episode caused the project to adjust Ziggy and the, uh, [[StarTrek holoemitters]] so that Al would see Sam as Sam from then on.
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** Al usually ends up talking to the people in the chamber and he tries to calm them down. I don't think it's ever addressed how the person fits back into his/her body after Sam leaps out after solving all the problems for that person.
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*What happens when Sam leaps out and the "leapees" return to their bodies? Does Al fill them in as to what happened before they leap back, is there liberal use of hand-waving which causes them to share relevant memories with Sam, or do they leap back having no idea what just happened? If it's door number three, do they explain what is happening to the person Sam replaced, or do they "neuralize" the person, like in Men in Black? (Wow, Bellasario's Maxim, self...chill out.)
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*What happens when Sam leaps out and the "leapees" return to their bodies? Does Al fill them in as to what happened before they leap back, is there liberal use of hand-waving which causes them to share relevant memories with Sam, or do they leap back having no idea what just happened? If it's door number three, do they explain what is happening to the person Sam replaced, or do they "neuralize" the person, like in Men in Black? (Wow, Bellasario's Maxim, self...chill out.)
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